Information: New Questions to a Multidisciplinary Concept - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3055016653 ISBN 13: 9783055016653

Publisher: Vch Pub, 1996

Synopsis

With the goal of constructing a coherent, systematic, and theoretical understanding of information as an entity in computer science and physics, describes its basic theoretical, physical, biological, philosophical, linguistic, and sociological properties. Some of the specific topics are the information processing of cosmic signals, the context-dependence of biological information, simple and complex models in science, and the genesis of information structures. The 19 papers are revised from their presentation at a multi-organization conference in Cottbus, Germany, May 1994. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Publisher

This volume is based on contributions presented at the conference about multidisciplinary aspects of information theory in Cottbus, Germany, March 1994. Theoretical, physical, biological, philosophical, linguistical and sociological aspects of information are focused toward an extended understanding of information as a crucial concept.

About the Author

Editors' affiliations:
Dr. Klaus Kornwachs, Professor at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Germany
Dr. Konstantin Jacoby, Research Fellow at Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Vch Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3055016653
• ISBN 13: 9783055016653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Kornwachs Klaus, Jacoby Konstantin